Pollen (Material Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost. R.A. Varney.

Stratigraphic samples were examined from sites 23Ck302 and 23Le174 on the Avenue of the Saints project in northeastern Missouri. In addition, cultural samples from both sites were examined for pollen.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas E. Moutoux. Linda Scott Cummings.

Four pollen and four phytolith samples were examined from sites 5CT534 and 5CT535, located approximately seven miles east of La Junta, Colorado and within Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site. Pollen and phytolith analyses focused on a single feature from each site, believed to represent Late Prehistoric (Ceramic) occupation. Pollen and phytolith analyses were undertaken to identify vegetal elements of the subsistence base at the two sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

POLLEN AND PHYTOLITH ANALYSIS AT THE HARRIS SITE, SDI 4935, CALIFORNIA: Pollen and Phytolith analyses were conducted at the Harris Site (SDI-4935) in San Diego County, California. Stratigraphic pollen analysis was undertaken to provide information concerning past vegetation communities, as well as paleoenvironmental conditions. A single stratigraphic column was examined at 10 cm intervals to provide samples at close enough intervals for detailed interpretation of the past environment. Pollen...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Stratigraphic pollen and phytolith samples were collected at the Hutton-Pinkham site at ten centimeter intervals during the summer of 1989. These stratigraphic samples were collected from the same column examined for geomorphologic data. The column was cut into a west-facing stream meander cut bank of Bonny Creek. This analysis of pollen and phytolith samples from the column is conducted as a feasibility study to determine the preservation and interpretability of the records. Both pollen and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A single stratigraphic column through sediments at the MacHaffie Site (24JF4) yielded both pollen and phytolith samples. Pollen and phytolith analyses were conducted for each stratum to identify elements of the local vegetation for description of both local vegetation and paleoenvironmental conditions at this site through out the approximately 9,400 years represented.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda J Scott. PaleoResearch Institute. Rhoda O Lewis.

Pollen and phytolith samples were removed from three components at the Ray Long Site (39FA63) in southwestern South Dakota. This site is located within an ephemeral stream sediment sequence deposited by a tributary to the Cheyenne River in Fall River County. Analysis of the pollen and phytolith remains was directed towards determining whether continued sampling would provide data concerning the paleoenvironment. Buried Paleolndian components represent an Angostura occupation (11,000 BP)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Combined pollen and phytolith analyses were undertaken on five samples from the Utopia I Site (44JC32). This domestic site for enslaved African Americans exhibited two periods of occupation between approximately 1700 and 1750. Documentary evidence is strong that the components, separated spatially, were occupied by successive generations of enslaved peoples on the same plantation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Hatch Site (5WL38) and Rattlesnake Shelter (5WL1856) were examined for evidence of extant prehistoric vegetation in the pollen and phytolith records. The Hatch Site (5WL38) is located in the Pawnee National Grasslands of Weld County. Deposits identified as Late Plains Woodland were noted. A single hearth yielded a radiocarbon date of 880 + 50 BP (1070 + 50 AD) . In addition, occupation zones were also noted and identified as Late Plains Woodland. Pollen samples were examined from the hearth...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Paired pollen and phytolith samples represent stratigraphic sediments at 15Ct32 and 15Ct33. The largest temporal sequence is present at 15Ct32-1/15Ct32-2, where Late Paleoindian, Early Archaic, Archaic, and Woodland sediments were sampled. Early Archaic and Archaic sediments were sampled at 15Ct33. Pollen and phytolith records obtained from these sediments were analyzed to assess past vegetation communities and provide information concerning the paleoenvironment. Results from these sites...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. R.A. Varney.

A single vessel fragment, a mano, and a soil control sample were submitted for pollen and starch analysis. In addition, phytolith analysis was requested for the ceramic vessel fragment. Analyses are focused on identifying plants that might have been processed with this mano and in this vessel.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Thirty-one phytolith samples and two pollen samples were examined from 41CW54, reported in 99-60. Eighteen of these samples represent stratigraphic deposits that included four occupations. One sample was collected off-site as a control sample, and the remaining twelve samples were collected from sediments associated with tools, including gouges, flakes, and points, or from a paleochannel. Radiocarbon ages from the paleochannel range from 7560 ± 100 BP to 6650 ± 40 BP. The two pollen samples...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A former agricultural field system identified on the outskirts of Picuris Pueblo contains many terraces, grids, and other rock alignments. Some features may have been constructed as early as the thirteenth century CE. Ceramics recovered suggest most of the area investigated was used between 1500 and 1700 CE. One sediment sample was collected from ashy deposits immediately below a circular platform of thermally altered rocks, suggesting use as a thermal feature. Dozens of features of similar...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A former agricultural field system identified on the outskirts of Picuris Pueblo contains many terraces, grids, and other rock alignments. Some features may have been constructed as early as the thirteenth century CE. Ceramics recovered suggest most of the area investigated was used between 1500 and 1700 CE. One sediment sample was collected from ashy deposits immediately below a circular platform of thermally altered rocks, suggesting use as a thermal feature. Dozens of features of similar...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples were examined from Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site, the first permanent English settlement of the Colony Carolina. It was occupied between 1670 and 1680. Soil recovered from a trench feature in a possible small, seventeenth century vineyard was submitted for analysis. Documents indicate small grape arbors adjacent to houses in the area. Occupants grew experimental crops to determine what, if anything, would grow well in Carolina. Crops attempted include indigo, tobacco,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and phytolith analyses were undertaken on samples from three rock piles at AZ EE:3:48, the Cottonwood Wash Rock Pile site. These rock piles are situated in semidesert grassland and probably represent Hohokam dry farming features used during the Classic period between AD 1100 and 1300. Rock piles often are interpreted to be associated with agave cultivation, although both maize and cotton pollen also have been recovered from sediments associated with rock piles in the Tucson Basin (Fish...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Rustler Rockshelter, situated in the Providence Mountains of the eastern Mojave Desert, was comprised of a midden against the south-facing cliff. In addition, numerous artifacts were present. Three pollen and phytolith samples were examined from the midden in an effort to define plants that were discarded by occupants of this shelter. In addition, a single mano was washed to recover pollen that might inform concerning plants ground using this tool.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. R.A. Varney.

Seven sediment samples from features at site 10775-175 on U.S. Highway 491 DR North were examined for pollen and phytoliths. This site is a multi component site with occupations ranging from the Late Archaic to the Pueblo II. Pollen and phytolith samples were examined to provide information concerning use of the features, as well as some paleoenvironmental information.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings. R.A. Varney.

A single piece of groundstone and an abrader from site 35JE355 were washed to recover pollen and phytoliths that might inform concerning the use of these tools. This site is located along both banks of Lake Creek, Deschutes County, Oregon, where Highway 20 crosses the creek. The Lake Creek Site complex is situated on the east side of the crest of the Mid-Oregon Cascade Range. Previously conducted radiocarbon dates place occupation of this site between approximately 2080 ± 60 BP and 3100 ±...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Nine combination pollen and phytolith samples were examined from a variety of contexts from a late 18th and early 19th century plantation in Charleston County, South Carolina. Suspected garden plantings, garden parterres, an interior brick wall, thought to represent a walled garden or a retainer for compost, as well as a wall trench from an African American slave house were examined.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. R.A. Varney. Jaime Dexter.

Site 41KR621 is located within the boundaries of a proposed right-of-way extension along Spur 98 in Kerrville, Texas. Situated on the southern approach of Spur 98 to the Guadalupe River, this multi-component, Mid to Late Holocene prehistoric site covers the entire highway right-of-way from the base of an upland toeslope at the southern terminus to the scarp of a terrace above the river. Soil matrix samples from several features at the site were examined for pollen and phytoliths, as were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Located in south Texas, site 41MV164 is situated near the western edge of Maverick County approximately six miles east of the Rio Grande River, above an unnamed tributary of Elm Creek. The Archaic site consists of a surface scatter of fire-affected rock, chert cores and debitage. Diagnostic tools found on the surface include Ensor-like and Frio dart points, as well as a Seal/om arrow point. Cultural materials were identified in three distinct locations: buried beneath the floodplain...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Stratigraphic samples were examined for both pollen and phytoliths from two archaeological sites (33Le396 and 33Le405) to identify vegetation and changes in vegetation that can provide information concerning paleoenvironmental conditions. Features at site 33Le405 yielded radiocarbon ages indicating Early to Late Woodland occupations, whereas site 33Le396 appears to have been occupied during the Middle Woodland. Feature samples were examined for pollen and phytoliths from each of these site...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. R.A. Varney.

Pollen analysis was undertaken on samples from four archaeological sites (34HP70, 34HP76, 34HP131, and 34HP138) in the panhandle of northwest Oklahoma. A piece of groundstone and a soil control sample were examined at 34HP70 to determine what, if any, plants were ground using this tool. At site 34HP76 the floor of a pit was examined to identify possible use of the pit. A hearth at 34HP131 was examined to identify economic activity associated with this feature. Finally, at 34HP138 several...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and phytolith samples were examined from a variety of vegetation communities to examine the pollen and phytolith records representing these different vegetation communities. Previous pollen and phytolith analyses of samples from archaeological sites at Yellowstone have yielded a pollen record dominated by Pinus pollen that appears to obscure evidence of movement of other pollen types within the record. This study was designed to examine the pollen record in both the standard manner, then...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48YE449 and 48YE454 are located at the mouth of Arnica Creek, which flows into the northern portion of West Thumb, Yellowstone Lake. Site 48YE1, the Fishing Bridge Site, is located along the Yellowstone River at the north edge of Yellowstone Lake. Both buried and surface fired rock features were noted and sampled for pollen and phytolith analysis from 48YE449. These features are presently located within a meadow along the lake shore. Pollen and phytolith analysis were undertaken to...